R.E.M. performed live on The Tube 31 years ago today. In Newcastle, the town I now find myself in. Jules Holland announced them as hailing from Atlanta when of course they're from Athens. Michael Stipe corrected him after their first song. Note the almost entirely static audience. They, like me had no idea what the were watching. The band played one fast song and two mid-tempo ones including the then unrecorded So. Central Rain, so sure were they of what they'd got. They went on in some way to change my life.
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